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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20
Montpelier and Vicinity.

JUDGE AND MRS T. p. REDFIELD have re-
turned from Washington.
A DAUGHTER was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
w. E. Harlow on Monday.
Miss JANE PINGREE is again installed as
housekeeper at the Pavilion.
THE ice left the Wnooski river on Friday
without creating any disturbance.
Mrs. W. S. FRENCH is visiting at the
home of her parents in Woodstock.
Miss JANE KIMBALL is intending to go to
Rutland tomorrow for brief visit.
The condition of c. II. Pitkin, Esq, is
quite materially changed for the better.
l.. BART Cross, d. F. Long, A. w Ferrin,
A. ID. Farwell and II. c. Webster are in
Boston.
HENRY f. GERo went to Boston on Tues
day to receive a course of instruction in
stenography.
DIR. PUTNAM has returned to Montpelier
after an absence of some weeks in New
York and Royalton.
The Easter sale was well attended and
was in every way successful affair, the net
receipts being almost S240.
M. j, COBB of Boston has been in town
for few days on business pertaining to the
estate Of the late Henry Cobb.
THE meeting at Wrightsville at two P. NJ.
next Sunday is to be conducted by Mr..
Wright. The new organ will be used.
THERE will be no preaching at Trinity
church next Sunday, but Sunday-school and
the evening service will be held as usual,
Mrs, CHARLES REED and Mr.. NJ. d. Gill
man have returned home from Boston, the
latter to remain but short time, however.
Mr.. WRIGHT expects to preach in the
Morse school-house, East Montpelier, on
May 1st, instead of on April oath, as was in
tended.
THE sixth and last of the series of con-
certs and assemblies by the Montpelier
Military Band will be held at the Pavilion
Hotel tomorrow evening
PERSONS attending the annual session of
the Vermont Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence at St. Johnsbury this week can go and
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sixteen common schools have had three
terms-two of these thirty weeks and one
thrty-two weeks. Two hundred forty.
eight scholars have attended the common
schools and one hundred fifty-six the
graded schools sixty-eight scholars have at
tended academies and private schools.
There are two schools Of not more than six
scholars. The largest number have at
tended the primary department of the
graded school. The public money raised
by the town, including interest on the sur
plus $3.50 and rent of land (S13i), amounts
to S1,703. The amount raised by the seven
teen districts is S2,4122S. The entire sum
raised in town for school purposes is S4,-
249.2S The amount paid to teachers is
S3,S3S.2S, including board. Cost of fuel,
S242.16. Average number of weeks twenty
seven and two-fifths. Twenty-Five differ
ent teachers-twenty-thre females and two
males - have been employed and forty
seven terms of school taught. Average
price of female teachers including board,
S6.0i per week" 80 The st. Johnsbury
students return to their work this week
- j. G. Griggs took in five thousand
pounds of maple. sugar on Monday. -
Rev. &. NJ. Sheldon made an exchange on
Sunday last with Rev. j. II. Hincks, pastor
of Bethany church, Montpelier. - G. f.
Clough, G. c. Warren and Joseph Somer-
+. Squres of Boston. They are to average
three hundred pounds each.
Woodbury..
Miss CORA DANIELS has been engaged to
teach the summer term of school at the Cen
ter. - Melvin McCrillis of Hardwick has
moved into house owned by Carroll Nc
Knight, known as the Osgood place. -
Martin GoodnOugh is stopping at Ora Jack
sons. - Mrs. Ora jackson has been in
Barre the past week to attend the funeral of
her brother, Luman Mack =- Quite a
number of the children in and around the
Center have whooping- cough. - Weston
jackson, who has been very i'll, is better
Wesley Bill is still very low, and fears are
entertained that he will not recover. Ward
ner Burnham is very sick with pneumonia
and his recovery is considered doubtful
- r. f. Drenan has purchased of the
administrator the farm and hotel owned by
the late Albert Town.
South Woodbury..
WARDNER BURNHAM and Weston Jack
son are both i'll with pneumonia. -O o.
a. Daniels lost valuable COW last week
- Floyd Blake has returned from Hyde
Park. - o. A. Wilbur is reported to
have made ton of maple sugar this spring.
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Caledonia County.
GrOtOn.

ALBRo HEATH, who narrowly escaped
death few years ago at Groton Pond mill
by an emery-wheel bursting and knocking
out part of his skull, was instantly killed
last Monday at a mill in the west part
of the town. He was leaning over the saw,
oiling an arbor when he either slipped or
the saw caught his coat, in such a manner as
to throw him upon it. He was cut nearly in
two. - F. I. Holmes left last Monday
for Elgin, Ill, where he is to have posi-
ton in the Northern Illinois Insane Asylum.
- Miss Lydia Morrison goes to st.
Johnsbury this week to work in millinery
store. - Quite number expect to at
tend conference at st. Johnsbury the last of
this week - A son of Moses Page had
his wrist badly cut, one day last week, by
bringing it in contact with saw in Wheel
er's mill at Peacham. - Miss Asenath
Paul went to Manchester, n. H., last
Saturday to attend school. Miss Emma
Heath has gone to the same place to spend
the summer.
Hardwick.
CoAsTING on the snow-crust has been the
rage during the past week. Children of
older age have freely INDUCED in the excit-
ing paStlme. No accidents are thus far re-
ported, except that Mrs. DIR. Darling at
tempted to slide on her face, one morning,
and the crust proving the hardest she came
out second-best with badly lacerated face.
- The river is mostly clear of ice. with
no ice lresneU, Ior Whlch our people living
near the stream are truly grateful. -
Some sugar has been made the past week.
but in most localities the weather has been
too cool for large yield - The steam
mill roof caught fire at noon the 14th, or
was discovered just as the whistle sounded
for noon, having burned through the
shingles, showing itself inside. The village
was reused, but the mill-men succeeded in
extinguishing the fire before much damage
was done. - A slight correction of an
item of last week seems needed Our state
ment that the buildings burned on West
Hill We're not occupied proves to be untrue.
They We're occupied by Mrs. Glchrist, and
had been for some time. The moving re-
ferred to was probably the driving there of
some stock by Mr.. Thompson We supposed
the information upon which our former
statement was based was reliable.
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Orange County.
Bradford.

REV. A. j. HoUGH preached the last ser
mon of the present conference year last
Sunday morning. He then expressed him
self as desiring and expecting to be re-
turned here, and his congregation and many
friends earnestly hope he may complete the
three years here that are allowed by con-
ference. He will attend conference this
week, which convenes at ST. Johnsbury
to-day Wednesday, - Miss Minnie
Blood and Miss Mabel Ormsby returned
last week from South Pasadena, Cal, where
they have been employed during the win
ter in Raymond's new hotel. - But
little maple sugar has been made in this
vicinity thus far. - b. Bixby has put
into his store a lamp of four hundred
candle-power intending to light the store
with one lamp. - In the trial of it, Sat
urday night, it seemed capable of giving
more light than the six lamps formerly used.
Braintree.
DoN PARKER has moved his family to
West Randolph. - Frank Herrick will
work in j. l.. Moses livery-stable the COM
ing summer, - Mrs. +. l.. Archer is ill
and Abbie Hutchinson has lung fever.
- Mary Flint visited friends in North
field last week. ii. b. Ford and a
young man were thrown from wagon one
day last week. Mr.. Ford was seriously in
jured. - Henry Fits was injured one
day last week by stepping through a scuttle-
hole in his barn. - Miss Olivia M.
Woodward will teach the school in District
No. in Randolph.
Chelsea.
EDWARD II. Brown has gone TO Topeka,
Kansas where he has obtained employment
- The firm of Il. r. Hyde & Co. has
dissolved, j. b. Atwood continuing the
business - W. w. Calder lost valua-
BILE COW recently. = John b. Corliss has
moved into Mr.. Norris house on Maple
avenue. 60 The South Royalton stage
now leaves here at 1880 A. NJ. An
alarm of fire Thursday morning was caused
by e. W Mattoon's house taking fire from
the burning out of chimney. The fire was
eXtinguished without calling out the engine
and the damage was slight. ==- Hattie,
youngest daughter of Dea. Franklin Dear
born, is quite i'll with ntiammatory rheuma-
tism. 80 Elra Bicknell died suddenly
Saturday night at his home in Tunbridge,
and the funeral services are appointed for
Wednesday. He was a member Of long
standing in the Methodist church here.
- Rev. j. Il. Knapp preached his fare
well sermon on Sunday He reported the
net gain of his church in membership above
losses by death and removal during his pas
torate TO be thirteen. He surely leaves the
CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAeK.l
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Business Notices.

APPLY to First National Bank Mont
pelier, VT, if you want an absolutely safe
investment drawing six per cent interest.
READ j. V. Brooks new advertisements.
Rooms to rent over Bascom's drugstore,
suitable for family or dress-making. Rent
500 per year.
For SALE Several light wagons at bar
gain. Address The Singer Manufacturing
Co., Montpelier or Burlington.
HAVE you tried the improved Gold Medal
Sarsaparilla? There is health in it, and it
is the best. Sold by all druggists.
"sKIpPED by the Light of the Moon " has
played the most successful engagement ever
known in the Bijou Theater - Boston
Herald.
HISTORY OF MONTPELIER, with seventy
five engravings, now for sale at Longs.
Price reduced to $3.50. But few left. Also
Vol ". of the Gazeteer Of Vermont.
ARTISTIC INDELIBLE STAMPING on velvet,
felt, satin and other materials, for braiding,
embroidery or painting, done at the lowest
prices by Mrs. Carrie e. Jones, fremont
street.
The Hazelton, Kranich & Bach, Angus
tus Baus & Co., Vose & Sons and Prescott
are fine pianos. Standard everywhere.
Represented by j. f. Waterman, Mont
pelier, Vt.
DENNIS LANE has put full line of family
groceries and canned goods into his Capital
drugstore, and intends to sell them, as well
as drugs and medicines, for cash at very
low prices.
For SALE-A very fine house, nearly new,
situated in Montpelier, in good location.
Also some to rent. Those wishing to pur-
chase or rent please call on Stephen
Thomas, agent.
If your eyes blur or cause dizziness
Neill, the optician, can give you immediate
relief, Scientific corrections for all condi-
tions of sight. Perfect results guaranteed.
Neill, optician, State street.
PIANos.-I have at my house a fine up
right piano, finished in French walnut from
the well-known firm of Vose & Sons, Boston.
Parties wanting pianos are invited to call
and examine the same. j. +. Waterman.
Mrs NJ. l.. WELLS of Duxbury Corners
goes to New York this week to purchase her
spring and summer stock of millinery.
Mrs Wells brings with her a new trimmer.
This new stock will present as fine an at
traction as usual.
FARM mortgages netting seven per cent
are sold and guaranteed by the Farmers
Trust Company. These loans are receiving
the endorsement Of the most careful in
vestors. Inquire at the Office of George w.
Wing Montpelier, Vt.
WANTED-Ten good men wishing for posi-
tions to sell Singer sewing g-machines. Farm
ers' sons can give a part of their time to the
business and do well. Liberal terms. Ap-
ply TO or address j. f. Dutton, Montpelier,
or III. II. Thomas, Burlington
If you do not need it for felon, a boil, a
burn, corn, the piles, erysipelas, chill
blains, chapped or cracked hands, cold
sores on the face or lips, sore eyes or any
other sore, your horse will need box of
Maxham's Carbolized Ointment TO cure him
of the scratches, for it will do it at once,
and you cannot afford to be without il in
your house. j. V. Babcock sells it in Mont
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20

On the 1st of May, 1887, we shall put the
entire subscription list of the WATcHMAN on
the plan of strictly advance payment, at
that time disseminating all papers not paid
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another year will comply with our new
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There will be no failure on our part to
inaugurate the new plan on the date men
toned, and as we want to put our list in
new type it will be a favor to us if sub
scrbers will attend to the matter of re-
newal the coming week.
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WE have permission to continue until
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WE still offer the family scales with the
WATCHMAN one year for S. Also the
splendid engraving of Longfellow in his
Library for tifty-eight cents in addition to
the yearly subscription price of the paper.
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Clubbing List.

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LamOille County.
East EInOre.

JOHN REED has returned home from
Hardwick, having been obliged to give up
work on account of poor health. -
George j. LaBarron is at work saving for
Earl Guyer of Wolcott.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.
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make such good apprentices that the
classes at the school have been de-
pleted by the demand for them.
THERE seems to be no legitimate rea-
son for the advance in coffee from
seven and one-fourth to twenty and
one-half cents pound in the last year.
1t is purely the result of operations by
spectators in cotton and other prod
ucts, and is deprecated by the legitimate
jobbers, who assert that the effect has
been to drive from New York millions
of dollars worth of trade which had
been encouraged by the starting of the
coffee exchange upon supposed bust
ness principles. If the exchange
wishes to maintain its commercial
standing it would better rid itself of
the spectators who seem to control
its business. There is also another
side to this coffee gambling. 1t has
put up the poor mans principal luxury
about two hundred per cent in one
year, and has brought into the market
again all sorts of deleterious mixtures
which had been driven out by the low
prices prevailing for two or three years.
Now only those who can afford to pay
thirty cents and more pound can hope
to get anything but adulterated coffee.
Tribune.
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vations, but the general view has been
that there is plenty of room in the
United States for all immigrants from
the old world who are industrious, self
sustaining and aw-abiding, and who can
be easily assimilated with our native
population. All can agree, however,
that paupers, criminals, revolutionists
and anarchists should not be permitted
to find an asylum in this country. 1t
is becoming a much-discussed question
whether more extended limitation
ought not to be put upon the inflow of
people of all sorts from Europe. Our
policy heretofore has been not only to
permit but to encourage immigration
without discrimination, except as to
persons known to be criminals, paupers
and contract laborers. There is reason
for believing that good part of the
present immigration is not very desir-
able, and it might be of great advantage
to the United States if it could be di-
verted to other parts of the world. At
any rate, the question of imposing
further restrictions upon immigration is
one that must be decided in the near
future.
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Feeding on the Wind.

In late issue of Hdrper'S Weekly
there is a characteristic article COM
mending the sentiments expressed by
the democratic postmaster of st. Louis
in a recent letter to the Missouri Civil
Service Reform Association. The writer
of the letter eXtolled civil service re-
form in the highest terms, and stated
that he should "view with dread a re-
turn to the old methods" 1t appears
to be very easy for these pretended adj
vocates of reform to beguile the mug
wumps, but it requires only few facts
and figures to expose their insincerity.
According to the record published in
the st. Louis Republican the work of
removing republican postmasters from
presidential offices and the appoint
ment of democrats in their places has
been nearly completed in the states of
Missouri and Arkansas, and in Kansas
the record now stands as follows:
Out of the one hundred seven presi-
dental postmasters in the latter state
ninety-six have been handed over to
the democrats, leaving only eleven re-
publicans in office, and in the three
states together only twenty-five of the
republican presidential postmasters who
had been appointed before Mr.. Cleve-
land was inaugurated now remain.
The Philadelphia Press, commenting
on the most suggestive remark of the st.
Louis Republican that all these changes
have been made by President Cleve-
land without alternating the support
he received at the last election from
the Independent republicans says:
"The statement is undoubtedly true,
and it shows how thoroughly the demo-
Gratis understand their ability to beguile
the mugwumps. Mr.. Cleveland has
fed them on such beautiful sentiments
as those expressed in the letter of the
st. Louis postmaster, and all the time
he has been dealing out offices to his
party friends, until at least three-fourths
of the federal patronage is now in the
hands of the democratic party. A year
hence, when the other fourth has been
awarded to the same party, there is not
the slightest doubt that the mugwumps
will still be feeding on their diet of
wind and singing the praises of Cleve-
lands civil service reform"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

isfied with American democracy in the
first half century or so of its existence
than with its present tendency to re-
form by legislative enactment the in
dividual and society, to soften the
money troubles, to mitigate domestic
unhappiness and I" to enact popular
weakness out of existence by statute"
The following quaint illustration is not
without pertinent application to GER
tain class of people: " In the old fairy
tale the poor man and his wife were
given their three wishes. And the
wife wished for a black pudding; and
the husband wished it at the end of his
wife's nose. And there was nothing
left for the third but to wish it off
again. We may hope, and justly, that
the democracy has been more wise than
this. But that there has been ten
dency rather to wish for black buildings
than for hands free to get them and
stomachs able to digest them it were
useless TO deny" We are not prepared
to endorse the deduction which Mr..
Stimson finally draws from his conclu-
sions, that "the three institutions-of
private property, of marriage, and of
personal liberty from state control
are so inseparably bound together that
neither one may fall without the other
two" nor the inference that unless the
disposition to restrict personal liberty
is checked marriage and property will
finally be abolished along with freedom.
We are of the opinion that Mr.. Slim
sons conclusions rest upon insufficient
premises. While it is not to be denied
that the tendency of the times is toward
a radical revolution in social conditions,
not all of the changes are for the worst,
and there is little danger that the more
dangerous doctrines and purposes of
socialism will be allowed to prevail.
Any serious spread of these extreme
theories would surely be followed by
reaction. There is no doubt that, on
the whole, the civilized world is gradu-
ally growing better, Notwithstanding
the temporary and exceptional indica-
tons to the contrary.
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New Publications.

JOAN SEWER, THE COMMONWEALTH
BUILDER. By James r. Gilmore Edmund
Kirke). This is valuable contribution to
American history. 1t is prepared with
ability and is a worthy sequel to " The
Rearguard of the Revolution" Sewer
has a friendly but faithful historian in the
author. New York: ID. Appleton & Co.
THE JOHN SPICER LECTURES. BY Mrs. A.
NJ. Diaz. Boston: ID. Lothrop Company.
Price sixty cents OF all the writer's of
practical things for boys no one understands
her audience better than Mrs Diaz. Her
William Henry books hold the first place
in Juvenile literature for absolute knowledge
of boy-nature and for pure, breezy whole
someness. This new book from her pen in
PRODUCES Mr.. John Spicer-" aged eight and
one month '-as lecturer in the Barn Hall
course, the only one older being Dick the
superintendent, aged nine. The subjects of
the course include Christmas Trees"
Knives" Swapping, -" Fourth of july"
" Sneaks, -" Crying, -" Manners, >" Money
and Boys" and in every one of them,
mingled with lots of fun, the author con-
trives to instil some good, healthy lesson,
and in such a way that it cannot help sticking.
The June number of The Cosmopolitan,
the last that will be published in Rochester
before its appearance in New York city,
opens with charming story entitled The
Sulptor's Ward" by Jeanne Maret. Sig
nor To- by Salvatore Farina, is brought to
close in this number, The wonderfully
interesting series of articles by Emile Julli-
ard, on " Life Beneath the Crescent" is also
concluded. This, like the other articles, is
handsomely illustrated. How I Assembled
a 1fexican Volcano" by AID. F. Bandelier,
the well-known American archRologist, is
lively and interesting account Of the au-
thor's experience while climbing Popocata-
petl. " An Imperial Barbarian" by Henry
Howard, presents, in an attractive manner,
M. Taine's views of NapOleOn BOnaparte.
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Immigration.

The Christian Intelkgencer, which is
usually conservative in its opinions
upon secular affairs, has the following
paragraph:
Immigrants are arriving at this port
(New York; at an average rate of about two
thousand day. They are not wanted.
The time was when there was need of them
Not the best of them are we in need of now
Our labor market is overstocked. Our
American lads are shut out from mechan-
ical occupations in order that the immi-
grant may have work. The time was when
the carpenter shops were half occupied by
American lads learning the trade. That
time is past The shops are occupied now
by foreigners. So it is in all trades. The
public lands will be taken up in ten years,
in less than ten years if the immigration
continues to flow in as it does this year
They are the patrimony of our sons-the
sons of the men who fought the war of the
revolution, of 1872 and the civil war. For
eigners who have not the least clai m upon
these lands, who have not expended a cent
of money or stroke of work or a thought
for their acquisition are taking them up
1t is an outrageous injustice to the sons of
American farmers to allow this seizure of
land to go on What is to be done? "Put
tariff on Castle Garden" as the working
man exclaimed at political meeting.
Charge not less than $50 head for every
immigrant 1t would look unkindl Not at
all. Let these immigrants go to temperate
md
we and our fathers have done. 1t has not
hurt us to do it, it will not injure them.
There is much force in these obser-